Includes bibliographical references (p. 246-250) and index.
Contents:
The family violence and woman abuse debate: reviewing the literature, posing alternatives / Katharine D. Kelly -- Measuring wife assault by surveys: some conceptual and methodological problems / Alice Propper -- Agitators and peace-makers: cross cultural perspectives on older women and the abuse of young wives / Judith K. Brown -- The interaction of cultural and personality factors in the etiology of wife assault -- Donald G. Dutton and Cynthia van Ginkel -- Tradition or tribulation: thoughts on women's oppression and wife abuse in Ghana / Rosemary A.O. Ofei-Aboagye -- Cash or kind: economic violence and sexually transmitted debt / Jocelynne A. Scutt -- Wife abuse and the family's crisis: the case of Canada / John F. Conway -- Criminal justice programs for batterers: can they contribute to the efforts of ending violence against women? / Russell P. Dobash ... [et al.].
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